"Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy."

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Source : Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Neal Shusterman

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“There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.”
“When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.”
“My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.”

Source : Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.276, Melville House
“Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.”
“The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It's such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There's a dark magic present. It's no wonder that it's been the hot bed for so much vampiric folklore. The city has got an ancient quality. It's one of the oldest cities in North America.”

Source : "Daniel Gillies Talks THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, The Spin-Off THE ORIGINALS, His Directorial Debut BROKEN KINGDOM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 16, 2013.
“Fortunately for me, I was able to see the newspaper and saw that they were hiring in a new program called the Cedar Program, and I recall going to one of my Olympic buddies and saying, "Hey, man, this might be a shot in the arm for us. Let's go down and apply for these Cedar jobs."I took a job as a gardener caretaker.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.”
“I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”

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